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Webster 1913 Edition
Sedum
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Se′dum
,Noun.
[NL., fr. L.
sedere
to sit; so called in allusion to the manner in which the plants attach themselves to rocks and walls.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop.
Gray.
Definition 2024
Sedum
Sedum
See also: sedum
Translingual
Sedum liebmannianum
Proper noun
Sedum n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Crassulaceae – the stonecrops, succulents found throughout the northern hemisphere.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots - clades; Saxifragales - order; Crassulaceae - family; Sedoideae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): See
Sedum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies for the numerous species
sedum
sedum
See also: Sedum
English
a sedum
Sedum atratum
Sedum atratum
Noun
sedum (plural sedums)
- Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
sēdum
- genitive plural of sēdēs
References
- sedum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sedum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.